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Powerful Learning is Collaborative and Connected

Digital Promise

Not only do students benefit when they see what they’ve created matters, but the resources teachers create and share publicly support their own professional learning as well. In Digital Promise Global’s Learning Studios program, students in Australia connected with students in California to virtually play board games they each had designed.

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Part 5…Beyond the Shine : Supporting Technology with the SAMR Model plus Ten Great Resource Sites

21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

Link: Part 2… Beyond the Technology Shine… Content Standard Nouns Meet 25 Free OER Education Resources. At the same time, it must be remembered that all of the stages allow for technology interaction and increased student engagement. What might have been gained in regards to student learning because of the substitution?

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Pearson CEO Fallon Talks Common Core, Rise of ‘Open’ Resources

Marketplace K-12

“We see technology as the means by which I can apply the benefits of teaching to far more people, and you can help free teachers up to spend more time with students, engaging students, learning from each other. So it’s going to be important that we track value-added, or progress-added.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

At the time, David Wiley expressed his concern that the lawsuit could jeopardize the larger OER movement, if nothing else, by associating open educational materials with piracy. Derek Newton argued in The Atlantic that Staton’s (and by extension Carey’s) analysis misconstrued what most parents and students want from schools.

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